The historic and deadly flooding that has crippled the Midwest for months, and caused billions of dollars in damage to farms and state infrastructure, is also fouling up a minor league baseball team’s ability to play the nation’s favorite pastime.
, and caused billions of dollars in damage to farms and state infrastructure, is also fouling up one Davenport, Iowa, minor league baseball team’s ability to play the nation’s favorite pastime.through the summer, have robbed the Quad City River Bandits, a Class A minor league team affiliated with the Houston Astros, of the chance to play at home.
Though the team remains in first place, they can’t access their stadium as it's surrounded by water. That means the players are unable to practice regularly, stadium employees have had to find other jobs and the team has known little else than the road for most of the season. While the River Bandit’s stadium is saved from floodwaters by a levee system and can be accessible during floods, thanks to a catwalk 21 feet in the air, that’s still not enough to deal with the record-high water that hit 22.64 feet Thursday, according to the National Weather Service.
“We have embraced the Mississippi River,” Frank Klipsch, who has served as Davenport’s mayor since 2016, said. “It has become more and more popular to take on this kind of resiliency plan because if we put up a wall, it makes it worse for communities further downriver.”Kevin E. Schmidt / Quad-City Times via Zuma Press
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